Chaelie b



Patented May 1,1883.

ATTORNEYS H T m B H E 0 N UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLIE E. SMITH, OF HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS.

l-IAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters. Patent No. 276,912, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filed September 9, 1882. (No model.)

1' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLIE E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hoopeston, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Hames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makiuga part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is afront view of my heroes. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view. Fig. 3is also a cross-section.

This invention has relation to wear plates for wooden hanies; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the long curved angular iron corner-plate let into the inner and under corner of the heme-bar along the length thereof, thelatter being recessed to receive the plate, so that it shall lie flush with the surfaces of said hame-bar, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a designates a wooden hame bar of ordinary shape, but recessed along its under and inner walls, next the inner or bearing corner, I), as indicated at c, the depth of the recesses or seats being equal to the thickness of the wearplate to be let into the same.

tl represents the corner-plate, which is of curved and elongated form and angula-rly bent along its length to fit the corner I) of the hemebar, along which this plate is designed to extend, its rings 6 0', respectively, being seated in the recesses of the under and inner walls of the haine-bar, so that their surfaces are flush with said walls, as shown in the drawings. The corner-plate should be seen red in position by caused by the draft-strain and the working of .7

the hames from side to side. It preserves the heme-bars in form, so that the pressure exerted through them on the shoulders of the horse will be even and uniform.

Hanies having alower curved portion in the form of a socket or sheath for receiving an upper'portion of eithermetal or wood, or both combined, and a sleeve which slides over the lower portion and is provided with an adjustable staple-plate confined beneath its edge and in contact with the outer edge ofthe lower portion, is not new in this connection. \Voodcn iron-bound hames having the Wood formed with edge shoulders and anintervening swelling rib extending uniformly throughout its length has been combined with concave irons adapted to such shoulders and ribbed surface prior to my invention, and I claim neither of said constructions herein.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 18-- A hame provided with the elongated curved angular iron corner-plate (1, having the under and inner rings, 0 c, and let into the inner and under bearing-corner, b, of the hams-bar a flush with its inner and under walls, along its length, suhsta-utiallyas specified.

In testimony that 1 claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLIE E. SMITH.

Witnesses:

THOMAS SMITH, THos. WOOLVERTON. 

